Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT After Hours
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.08.2006
At Casa Suarez, Hilda cleans up Santos. He explains that he owed the money he gave her to his bookie, and they came and beat him up. He's really sorry she spent all night looking for him. And he's really sorry about a lot of other stuff, too. "Okay, don't start getting all real and emotional. It's not sexy," Hilda tells him. That is where she is wrong. A real and emotional bad boy? Ding-dong! Santos tells her that he didn't want Justin to see him like this. "You'll be brand new when he sees you on Thanksgiving," Hilda tells him, tenderly. "I'd like you to come."
Hogs and Heifers. Ted is telling Wil that he has three teenage girls. And he can relate to her pain with Nico. "One minute they love you, the next minute, they're saying and doing all they can to put the hurt on you," he says. Wil sighs that Nico has every right to be angry; after all, she had her assistant do her daughter's care package. Ted points out that Nico would hate her no matter what, but Wil thinks she should have tried harder. Ted shrugs that he should have been home more. "You just have to try to make up for it," he says, and then tells her that he's glad he saw this side of her. "Someone who makes the effort to be a good parent is the kind of person I want to work with," he says, and announces that he decided to advertise with them back at the office, but he's definitely had fun with her, and she's been a good sport. But now he wants some real food. "So what do you say we go over to Babbo? I know Mario. He'll keep his kitchen open for me," he offers. Wil thanks him vehemently, and they grasp hands. Oh la la!
When Betty gets home to Queens, Walter is OF COURSE on her stoop, because he lives there. On her stoop. She hands him his burger, explaining that she ate half of it. "But it's really good." They sit there in silence for a moment, and then Betty apologizes. She apologizes! That is ridiculous. She may have said hurtful thing, but he owes her an apology just as much if not more as she does him. "You know when I said you didn't belong? I was talking about me. I was so nervous that I couldn't do things the right way," she says. Walter brats that he doesn't know why she puts herself through it, and Betty tells him something he should surely already know: that this is what she's always dreamed of doing. Walter greets this with silence, and then finally admits that he's scared of losing her. Betty promises that he won't. "I'm here. I just need you to support me," she says. They hug. I swear to God, if Walter doesn't get the boot soon, I am going to get violent. I can not stand him. Also: who did she call? Was it Walter? I'm serious, I'm not really sure.